by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 15, 2016 | Columns, Horror World News
A new, diverse steampunk anthology titled Steampunk Universe is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign has been live for a little over a week and it’s 45% funded. Edited by Sarah Hans, the anthology will feature the work of Ken Liu, Jody Lynn...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 12, 2016 | Columns
My poem “The Scientist’s Paramour” is out in the new October/November double issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. The editors have billed this as their “slightly spooky” issue: The magazine is jam-packed with stories about ghosts,...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 12, 2016 | Columns
Most avid fiction fans have probably read plenty of fix-ups, but they might not know the term for this type of book. A fix-up is a collection of short fiction in which the stories are linked so that the whole thing works as a coherent piece of long fiction. In other...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 11, 2016 | Columns, Horror World News
I’ll have a brand-new Jessie Shimmer story in the anthology Shadowed Souls, which will be released on November 1st. Co-edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, the book also features stories by Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Kat...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 11, 2016 | Columns
In publishing, a collection is a book of short pieces (stories, essays, or poetry) all written by the same author or co-authors. Contrast this with an anthology, which is a book of short stories (or, less often, essays or poetry) written by different authors. A...